orleans
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Tue Apr-13-10 02:49 AM
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TV just turned itself off in the other room--twice |
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no one else is home.
when it shut off about twenty minutes ago i turned it back on.
then it turned off by itself five minutes ago.
freaked me out.
should i turn it on and see if it does it again?
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Tue Apr-13-10 02:51 AM
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Go for it!
You do NOT have a ghost!
It might be a short circuit or something...
:hug:
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orleans
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Tue Apr-13-10 03:33 AM
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2. ok peggy...but how can you be sure? n/t |
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Tue Apr-13-10 03:35 AM
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3. Well, I don't believe in ghosts! n/t |
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Tue Apr-13-10 04:23 AM
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Edited on Tue Apr-13-10 04:24 AM by Roon
My ex was physic sensitive and every once in a while his face would light up and he would tell me about a little girl he just saw running to the other room.This house is over a 100 years old and it would really creep me out when he would do that. My hairs are standing on end as I write this.
If ghosts are real, please don't ever let me see one, I don't think I could handle it.
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Tue Apr-13-10 04:57 PM
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16. well, i decided not to turn it back on again |
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after it shut off twice. i figured it wasn't meant to be on. i listened to the radio on the computer instead. george noory! omg!
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Tue Apr-13-10 05:35 AM
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And if it *then* turns on by itself again, go get your .357 magnum, aim center mass and shoot it. That should fix the problem.
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Tue Apr-13-10 09:25 AM
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Tue Apr-13-10 07:05 AM
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6. Check the back of it for the good/evil switch and make sure it's set to good. |
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Those switches are such a pain. }(
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Tue Apr-13-10 07:08 AM
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7. They do that sometimes. On "Ghost Hunters" it almost always had to do with |
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a remote that was stuck on "on/off" or a timer that had inadvertantly been set. There were a few other reasons, but I can't remember them now. But none of them involved ghosts, if that makes you feel any better. :)
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Tue Apr-13-10 07:10 AM
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8. Stop turning it to Fox and it won't happen again. |
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Tue Apr-13-10 08:12 AM
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9. I used to come home from work sometimes and find my tv on when I knew |
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I had turned it off before I left the house. It really creeped me out to hear voices in the house when I unlocked the door. I finally discovered that my cat was laying on the remote if I left it on the couch when I went out. Mystery solved!
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Tue Apr-13-10 08:29 AM
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10. Some cats just like to see hoomans freak out |
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Especially since they lost their status of gods after the ancient Egyptian times.
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Tue Apr-13-10 09:15 AM
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12. Hush, you fool! My cat has still not accepted the downgraded status. |
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Tue Apr-13-10 09:28 AM
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Tue Apr-13-10 08:56 AM
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11. We had a microwave oven that started doing that. |
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Sort of like a Toyota, I guess, maybe some glitch in the control circuitry.
Does a microwave oven really need a computer in it? (Gotta have that "Popcorn" button!)
I disassembled it, kept some of the parts for my mad scientist lab, and sent the rest of the beast to be recycled before it had a chance to burn our house down.
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Tue Apr-13-10 09:59 AM
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15. appears you have visitors from another dimension |
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offer them a Budwieser and that will get rid of them.
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Tue Apr-13-10 05:07 PM
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17. Even your tv knows how bad tv is these days. |
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I'd go with it's instincts.
It's probably just turned off by all the crap that passes for programming.
Get it?
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Tue Apr-13-10 05:24 PM
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18. KJ has the best answer yet!!! |
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Seriously, ours does it all the time. With the satelite dish, I think they are just doing a check everyday. Then the brain of it has a little fart* or something and then when it comes back on, it goes back to the average channel, not nec. the one it was on previously. I know, annoying!
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Tue Apr-13-10 05:25 PM
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19. it's getting hot, probably about ready for it to go out |
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unless ghosts are not liking your selection of programming ha
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Tue Apr-13-10 05:29 PM
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20. Something is breaking down. |
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Current flow is making something hot,it's electronic properties change and the protection circuits kick in.
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Tue Apr-13-10 05:29 PM
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21. Maybe your neighbor's remote is doing it. |
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Tue Apr-13-10 05:33 PM
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I had one that would do that from time to time and I finally figured out I had a tiny leak in the roof that was dripping just a little into the vents on the back of the tv, just enough to make it shut itself down sometimes.
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Tue Apr-13-10 08:37 PM
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23. My DU turned itself off last night. Spooky! |
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